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Explosion and fire hit major Russian gas pipeline

Published: 07.26.07, 00:41 / Israel News

An explosion and fire hit a major gas pipeline in northwest Russia early on Thursday but it was unclear if exports were affected, officials and witnesses said.

“It is an explosion on a trunk gas pipeline under high pressure,” said Valentin Sedorin, a spokesman for the Leningrad region around Russia’s second city of St Petersburg. (Reuters)

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An makeshift submarine is lifted out of the water at Bahia Malaga on the Pacific coast, July 24, 2007. During an operation Colombian Navy soldiers arrested four alleged drug traffickers and seized a makeshift submarine which was used for transporting cocaine. Picture taken on July 24, 2007. REUTERS/Colombian Navy (COLOMBIA).”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The vessel is the third submarine seized by Colombian authorities on the Pacific coast.”

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Authorities seize homemade submarine from Colombian drug gangs
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Posted on 07/25/2007 10:12:37 PM PDT by esryle

Bogota - Colombian authorities seized a homemade submarine allegedly used by drug traffickers for smuggling in Pacific waters in the north-western Choco province on the Panamanian border.

‘This type of boat had a capacity to transport approximately four tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride in its interior,’ the Colombian Navy said in a statement Wednesday.

The vessel is the third submarine seized by Colombian authorities on the Pacific coast.

The Navy noted that four people were arrested, and the authorities also seized a radio, a portable energy generator and other elements.

According to the official source, drug gangs have used this and other methods to transport illegal substances to destinations in Central and North America.